Robert Bowling has just responded to the masses of angry PC gamers and petitions for dedicated servers. "fourzerotwo: Definitely made a big wave, and the response will not be ignored. I'll ensure everyone at IW sees the petitions and responses to it."

Since this came over 36hrs after this all started I was expecting more then that. I was expecting them to come out with an of official responses to the online gaming community to help relax fears about this.

GOA.Luke*BK*

I think they realised the PC community is a whole different breed of animal and we will also stand up for whats rightfully ours.

On a side note, the petition has reached 75000 signatures, or in IW's mind, 75000 x $60.00 = $4.5 million dollars, Heck that would wake Bill Gates up out of a dead sleep.

Lets just say half of the people who signed the petition now wont buy the game thats still over $2 million dollars. IW needs to start some damage control quickly.

GOA.Luke*BK*

i hope they wake up!!!

I wasn't even expecting this much from them... I was expecting them to ignore all of us.

79k signatures a few minutes ago.

Eh... Maybe it's all a trick- first they say there won't be any dedicated servers so that all gamers community talks about it and rants about it, and then they change it back so even more players buy it.

Lol I wish that were true... Maybe it is... who knows.

Cod4 sold 10 Million copies of the game by June 08.  Multiply 10 million x $50 and thats.... a bazillion dollars.  Not sure our anger and petitions are going to effect the bottom line of a bazillion dollars. (give or take) I hope it does but...  

Only time will tell...

GOA.Luke*BK*

I think now is a good time to ask the question everyone has been wondering.....what is that stat bar at the bottom of your posts, Luke?

lets say PC gamers are a quarter of the market share (i'm being generouse). that means of 10,000,000 people 2,500,000 are pc gamers. sure its $60 we pay for it but they don't sell it to companies at that price so lets say they give game places a deal at $40 (after all gamestop needs to make money too). then subtract some for printing and packaging and employee costs. also add the cost of Their IW.net and upkeep .lets say that makes the game $15 net profit.

10,000,000 * 15 = $150,000,000(if everyone bought the game as of right now)
2,500,000* 15 = $37,500,000(PC gamer loss because they don't have dedicated servers)

that means instead of making $150,000,000 they are only gonna make $112,500,000

thats a huge chunk ($37,500,000). if you add a little bit of programing to allow dedicated servers and get rid of IW.net you can say the Net profit jumps to $20.

10,000,000* 20 = $200,000,000(if everyone bought the game with dedicated servers and scratch the IW.net idea)

lets say now because they went this way 500,000 people stole the game online
500,000 * 20 = $10,000,000 (loss due to theft by torrents etc)
200,000,000 - 10,000,000 = $190,000,000
so that means they are only gonna make $112,500,000 net profit instead of the 190,000,000 they could have made

190,000,000 - 112,500,000 = $77,500,000

thats $77,500,000 they are giving up i think thats a pretty large chunk lost.

(i have no idea what i'm talking about but it sounded nice. everybody else was doing math so i decided to join in)

Mlga